Timeline for How to pronounce a voiceless stop when it's at the end of a word which is behind a word that starts with a vowel?
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| Jan 11, 2018 at 18:21 | comment | added | Fire and Ice | @Andrew Thanks. Yeah, since you are a native English speaker, you can naturally make most sounds properly if you are intellectual enough in terms of your language. But since I am not a native speaker, I think it is probably better if I be careful about that. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 18:09 | comment | added | Andrew | @DereMemo Yes, perhaps, although again this can vary depending on who I'm speaking to and how fast. Also again, I wouldn't worry about trying to reproduce this sound, as I feel it will come naturally once you speak English using the natural rhythms. For example, in the sentence "If you don't know where to stop it won't come out right" there is a natural pause between "stop" and "it". If you blur these together, it will sound like you're slurring your speech. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | Fire and Ice | So I think that the situation's the same when a word ends with a voiceless stop and the next word starts with a vowel. I think you guys actually usually don't release the sound, but because of the next sound, it sounds kind of like it is being released. I hope you can understand what I mean. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | Fire and Ice | When I don't aspirate it, it still sounds kind of like the initial letter of the next word but it sounds less stressed. So that it sounds more correct to me when I pronounce that way. For example in the words "apple", "clipper", "chopper" etc. the voiceless stops are unaspirated but they still sound as if they are the first sounds of the next syllable. Or in the words like "star", "scar", "storm" etc. the voiceless stops are unaspirated but since there is a vowel after them, they sound kind of like released. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 16:17 | comment | added | Canadian Yankee | For me, it does depend on whether there's a vowel sound following the syllable. If I just say "stop," then my mouth stays closed at the end of the word and there is no aspiration. If I say "stop it," then the "p" is aspirated before the "i" as if it were the initial sound in the word "pit". So while it's true that the "p" isn't aspirated at the end of a syllable, the "p" ends up migrating to be pronounced as the initial consonant of the following syllable if it starts with a vowel, and is thus aspirated. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 21:40 | comment | added | Fire and Ice | In this video this channel claims that voiceless stops are usually pronounced as unaspirated at the ends of syllables. At 4:48. youtube.com/watch?v=yFPbLcUCraQ | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 20:53 | comment | added | Fire and Ice | When I create that sound by making an unaspirated sound like the "p" sound in "apple" or like the "t" sound in "start", it sounds correct to me. I also heard from many English teachers that the voiceless stops should be unaspirated at the ends of syllables, but I didn't know much about the rule about the situations where the next word starts with a vowel. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 20:33 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |